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The main façade, created by Joan d'Aragó,
an important baroque architect and maker of retables in mid-eighteenth
century Mallorca, is flanked by two colcadors, or stone mounting-blocks.
Its large portal (portal forà), whose doors are sheathed
in bronze, has on either side two elliptical windows of the
kind called ojo de buey (ox-eye) and is set off by two columns
and a lovely baroque frame of reddish local stone.
The coffered ceiling, the work of Almohade craftsmen, was
built in 1170. It is worked in pine and holm-oak wood, with
inlays forming beautiful and typical arabesques. On the lower
part are inlaid the coats-of-arms of the Arabic families
who lived on the estate, and next to those of the Moor Ben-Abet
of the thirteenth century, the bars of the Kingdom of Aragon
and Catalonia superimposed. The frieze reads "Allah is great.
Allah's the power. There is no god but Allah.
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